Lenovo (singapore) Pte. Ltd.

Kazuya Shibayama

Ken Sasaki

Yusaku Morishige

Naoyuki Araki

Mikio Hagiwara

Yuuki Matsuura

Toyoharu Han

Dharmesh Rameshbhai Dhankecha

A method of operating a computing system, including a computing device and a docking hub, includes: uploading, by the computing device to a network, identification information of the computing device and a firmware version information of an installed firmware on the computing device; detecting an error in the installed firmware; transmitting, from an embedded controller of the computing device to the docking hub, a first request message including the identification information; transmitting, from the docking hub to the network, a second request message including the identification information; retrieving, by the docking hub from the network, a backup firmware corresponding to the firmware version information; and installing the backup firmware to the computing device.

Firmware resiliency through cloud

An apparatus to shorten the time taken for executing a booting process includes, in one embodiment, a connection processing unit that establishes communication with and acquires information from a plurality of devices that are communicably coupled externally to an information processing device, the information relating to the plurality of devices regardless of whether a booting process is executed. The apparatus also includes a communication control unit that executes communication with each of the plurality of devices during the booting process, and a first processing unit that one of enables or disables communication between the communication control unit and a selected one of the plurality of devices in response to the acquired information related to the selected one of the plurality of devices. A method and a computer program product also perform functions of the apparatus.

Boot times in an information processing device with externally connected devices

An information processing apparatus includes: a processing unit configured to write setting data to be used for boot processing by BIOS (Basic Input Output System) in a predetermined area of a non-volatile memory in an order of changing, and execute the boot processing based on the setting data; a writing unit configured to write at least one tag in the predetermined area of the non-volatile memory at a predetermined timing during the boot processing, the tag corresponding to the timing; and an instruction unit configured to instruct the processing unit to execute the boot processing using setting data written before the tag in the predetermined area of the non-volatile memory.

Information processing apparatus, control method, and program

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Yokohama, Japan

Kazuya Shibayama